Mariveleño language

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title: "Mariveleño language" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["endangered-austronesian-languages", "sambalic-languages", "aeta-languages", "languages-of-bataan"] description: "Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariveleño_language" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines ::

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Field	Value
name	Mariveleño
altname	Bataan Ayta, Magbukun Ayta
states	Philippines
region	Mariveles
speakers	1,000
date	2011
ref	e18
familycolor	Austronesian
fam2	Malayo-Polynesian
fam3	Philippine
fam4	Central Luzon
fam5	Sambalic
iso3	ayt
glotto	bata1297
glottorefname	Bataan Ayta
ethnicity	2,000 (2011)
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| name = Mariveleño | altname = Bataan Ayta, Magbukun Ayta | nativename = | states = Philippines | region = Mariveles | speakers = 1,000 | date = 2011 | ref = e18 | familycolor = Austronesian | fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian | fam3 = Philippine | fam4 = Central Luzon | fam5 = Sambalic | iso3 = ayt | glotto = bata1297 | glottorefname = Bataan Ayta | ethnicity = 2,000 (2011) Mariveleño (also known as Magbikin, Bataan Ayta, or Magbukun Ayta) is a Sambalic language. It has around 500 speakers (Wurm 2000) and is spoken within an Aeta community in Mariveles in the Philippines.

Geographic distribution

Reid (1994) reports the following Magbikin locations.

• Kanáwon, Morong, Bataan
• Bayanbayanan, Magbikin, Mariveles, Bataan

Himes (2012: 491) also collected Magbukun data from the two locations of:

• Biaan, Mariveles, Bataan
• Canawan, Morong, Bataan

Cabanding (2014), citing Neil (2012), reports the following Magbukon locations in Bataan Province.

• Dangcol, Balanga, Bataan
• Kinaragan, Limay, Bataan
• Kanawan, Morong, Bataan
• Pita, Bayan-bayanan in Orion, Bataan
• Pag-asa, Orani, Bataan
• Ulingan, Matanglaw, and Magduhat (all in Bagac, Bataan)
• Sitio Luoban in Samal, Bataan
• Bangkal in Abucay, Bataan

References

• Cabanding, Monica. 2014. The Deictic Demonstratives of Ayta Magbukun. The Philippines ESL Journal, vol. 13.
• Neil, David R. 2012. An ethnographic study of the Magbukon literary arts among the Ayta of Bataan. Abucay, Bataan: Bataan Peninsula State University.
• Neil, David R. 2014. The Magbukon Literary Arts among the Aetas of Bataan, Philippines. IAMURE International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 11 No. 1 October 2014. (Online)

References

1. "Ayta, Magbukun".
2. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages". Oceanic Linguistics.
3. (2012). "The Central Luzon Group of Languages". Oceanic Linguistics.

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